Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-04 Thread David Campbell
Hi, I'm having terrible trouble trying to be able to login without a password to a cygwin sshd, even from another user on the same machine. The sshd is working fine for password logins. I've read lots of web pages about how to set it up, and I believe I've followed them, eg http://bumblebee.lc

Re: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-11 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, lex ein wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:47:57 +0200, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . > > On Oct 5 16:00, David Campbell wrote: > > > I've read lots of web pages about how to set it up, and I believe I've > > > followed

Re: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-12 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 09:13:21 -0700 (PDT), Vince Rice wrote: > Lots of things are "obvious" to an experienced user that aren't to a > new user (something I'm thankfully reminded of every time I sit with my wife at > a computer for more than five minutes). And the steps lex ein laid are > extremely a

Re: cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 08:33:52PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 09:13:21 -0700 (PDT), Vince Rice wrote: >> Lots of things are "obvious" to an experienced user that aren't to a >> new user (something I'm thankfully reminded of every time I sit with my wife at >> a compute

Re: cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-14 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:15:52 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > Did you see my suggestion that we should mention the existence of the > man and info commands in the FAQ entry? I can do that. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscri

Re: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 5 16:00, David Campbell wrote: > I've read lots of web pages about how to set it up, and I believe I've > followed them, eg http://bumblebee.lcs.mit.edu/ssh2/ (for openssh to > openssh): Why don't you read the official documentation instead? OpenSSH comes with a lot of man pages. Then

Re: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-08 Thread lex ein
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:47:57 +0200, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 5 16:00, David Campbell wrote: I've read lots of web pages about how to set it up, and I believe I've followed them, eg http://bumblebee.lcs.mit.edu/ssh2/ (for openssh to openssh): WHY DON'T YOU READ THE OFFICI

RE: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> So these little unfindable jewels exist not to be used _by_ > new users, but to be shot _at_ new users in ascerbic opprobrium. Welcome to the wonderful world of Unix my friend, where you must be an expert before you can be a beginner. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http:

Re: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
lex ein wrote: >>> I've read lots of web pages about how to set it up, >> WHY DON'T YOU READ THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION INSTEAD? [caps mine] > BECAUSE in the case of openssh(and others), the "official > documentation" is of little use to a new user: information is not Huh? I have read /usr/share/

Re: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-09 Thread Robert R Schneck
lex ein wrote: [...] > 2. The user might type 'help openssh' and be told to "try 'man -k openssh' > which produces "openssh: nothing appropriate", a nice showstopper. [...] > 6. If a user has by some miracle heard of 'locate', a search using 'locate > openssh' produces no results unless the u

Re: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-09 Thread Vince Rice
>> 3. One may try 'help ssh' and be told to "try 'man -k ssh' which >> produces "ssh: nothing appropriate", another showstopper. One _might_ >> ultimately try 'man ssh' instead and get (sort of) lucky. > This is *your* setup, this has nothing to do with openssh: > $ man -k ssh > [...] > ssh (1

Re: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-09 Thread Richard Troy
(I don't know _why_ I'm sitting at the keys on this glorious Saturday morning, nor do I know why I'm replying to such a thread... Oh wait, "I was a newbie once, too, and I remember what that was like." Yeah, that's it! True, that was "back in the day," but I still remember...) On Fri, 8 Oct 2004,

RE: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-09 Thread William Budell
hard work on these programs that they justly deserve congratulations and thanks for doing. William Budell Alief Independent School District -Original Message- Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password (I don't know _why_ I'm sitt

Re: cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:31:03PM -0700, lex ein wrote: >On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:47:57 +0200, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Oct 5 16:00, David Campbell wrote: >>>I've read lots of web pages about how to set it up, and I believe I've >>>followed them, eg http://bumblebee.lcs.mit.

Re: cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password (gold star)

2004-10-11 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 04:02:25PM +, Robert R Schneck wrote: > >lex ein wrote: > >[...] > >> 2. The user might type 'help openssh' and be told to "try 'man -k openssh' > >> which produces "openssh: nothing appropriate", a nice showstopper. > >[.

Re: cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password (gold star)

2004-10-11 Thread Robert R Schneck
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Can I get a gold star over here for an attempt to apply a creative >> solution to a problem? > > One gold star coming up... That's pretty nice for an "attempt" which didn't actually succeed. But hey... my Jan 2004 gold st

Re: cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password (gold star)

2004-10-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Robert R Schneck wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> Can I get a gold star over here for an attempt to apply a creative > >> solution to a problem? > > > > One gold star coming up... > > That's pretty nice for an "attempt" w

Re: cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password (gold star)

2004-10-13 Thread Robert R Schneck-McConnell
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Robert R Schneck wrote: >> But hey... my Jan 2004 gold star seems to have gone missing. > > Huh? From : >Robert R. Schneck <*> (Jan 2004) <*> (Oct 2004) -- For an attempt to apply a > creative solution to a problem

Re: cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password (gold star)

2004-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 04:02:25PM +, Robert R Schneck wrote: >lex ein wrote: >[...] >> 2. The user might type 'help openssh' and be told to "try 'man -k openssh' >> which produces "openssh: nothing appropriate", a nice showstopper. >[...] >> 6. If a user has by some miracle heard of 'locat